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Rotary Club supports Ayawaso North in fight against coronavirus

The Accra Rotary Club of Kanda has donated GH¢5,000 to the Ayawaso North Municipal Health Directorate. The team, led by the President of the Club,...

Social media on fire as partial lockdown is lifted

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has lifted the ban on restricted movement in some parts of the country including Greater Accra region and Kumasi. According...

Infographics: All you need to know about Akufo-Addo’s address on lockdown

President Nana Akufo-Addo has addressed the nation for the seventh time since the country began its fight against the novel coronavirus. Throughout his addresses, the...

READ: Why partial lockdown was lifted

PRESIDENT AKUFO-ADDO LIFTS PARTIAL LOCKDOWN, BUT KEEPS OTHER ENHANCED MEASURES IN PLACE The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Sunday, 19th April,...

Ban on social gatherings still in force

President Nana Akufo-Addo has lifted the three-week lockdown imposed in some parts of the country in order to control the spread of the deadly...

Coronavirus: Partial lockdown lifted!

President Akufo-Addo has lifted the partial lockdown on Greater Accra, Tema, Kasoa and Greater Kumasi. According to the President, the decision to enforce the...

FDA recalls COA FS products from the market

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) is recalling all batches of COA FS Food Supplement manufactured by COA Herbal Centre in Cape Coast and...

Kind landlady surprises tenants with 3 months’ rent waiver to ease lockdown pressure

A landlady of an apartment building at Teiman in Accra, Joyce Terkper, has given three months’ rent waiver to her tenants due to the...

Covid-19 Lockdown: Victory Bible Church supplies food items to over 2,000 homes in Awoshie

Victory Bible Church International (VBCI), one of the leading charismatic and pentecostal churches in Ghana, has given out food items to over 2,000 homes...

Lockdown: Akufo-Addo to address Ghanaians tonight

President Nana Addo Akufo-Addo will tonight address Ghanaians with updates on measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease. This will be the president’s...

Florence Obinim flaunts her backside in new photos after Ken Agyapong bashing

Florence Obinim, the wife of Bishop Daniel Obinim, has released new stunning photos on social media. The new photos have Mrs Obinim looking gorgeous...

Video: There’s no Coronavirus in Ghana – Pastor Prince Osei

Pastor Prince Elisha Osei Kofi, the Founder and Leader of Springs of Grace Executive Fellowship, says in spite of Ghana recording 834 cases of...

Residents turn church into public place of convenience [photos]

The Central Tongu District assembly is worried about increasing trend of open defecation despite measures to mitigate it. It comes as some residents of Adidome...

Joy Prime’s Covid-19 Series Giveaway: Free Lunch GH partners station to donate foodstuffs to residents of Dansoman

The donations being undertaken by Multimedia Group’s subsidiary, Joy Prime, has encouraged sponsors to partner the channel to reach more of its audience. Free Lunch...

Lockdown: Techiman market to be shut

The Municipal Chief Executive of the Techiman Assembly, John Donyina, has announced a one-week closure of its main market amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking at...

Israeli drug ‘Opaganib’ successful in treating patients with COVID-19

Opaganib is a 'new chemical entity' administered orally to patients with Covid-19 and it performs “anticancer, anti-viral and anti-inflammatory activities.” The experimental drug from the Israeli biopharmaceutical...

COVID-19: Family weeps, abandons search for missing child over lockdown

Tetteh Ocloo family at Klagon in the Greater Accra region, like many other families, 2020 is certainly a year which is pregnant with so...

Journalist reportedly shot as security forces raid Changli in Tamale

A journalist with Accra-based TV Africa has been reportedly shot during a joint security operation on Saturday, April 18, 2020 at Changli, a suburb...

134 arrested in dawn raid for brutalising female police officer in Tamale

Police sources at the Northern Regional Police Command have revealed that about 134 suspects were on Saturday dawn arrested in connection with the brutality of...

Female police officer collapses after suffering beatings from Tamale residents

A female police officer has gained consciousness after she blacked out following an attack by some residents of Changli, a suburb in the Tamale...

Coronavirus escapee captured in Wa

The Covid-19 carrie,r who escaped mandatory quarantine in the Upper West Region, has been arrested. ALSO READ: Too many empty past promises — Grace NorteyFemale police...

Female police officer collapses after mob attack in Tamale

A female police officer has gained consciousness after she blacked out following an attack by some residents of Changli, a suburb in the...

Covid-19 Private Sector 100-bed isolation, treatment facility [Video+Photo]

All is set for the construction of a 100-bed Covid-19 treatment and isolation facility, to complement efforts by the government to contain the coronavirus...

Upper East records one death, 4 additional Covid-19 cases

The Upper East Regional Director of the Ghana Health Service says the region has recorded the first death and four additional confirmed cases ...

Bizarre: China taking blood samples of blacks – Ghanaian shares chilling story [audio]

The Chinese government is being accused of forcefully taking blood samples of blacks as it battles to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. ALSO READ: READ: Prof Gyampo...

READ: Prof Gyampo chides cynics of govt

Political science lecturer at the University of Ghana, Prof Ransford Gyampo, is not happy about the incessant criticisms of government by the opposition, media...

Covid-19: Massaging test results is sin against God, science – Noguchi reacts to allegations

The Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research has debunked allegations that the Institute does not report actual Covid-19 cases. This comes after rumours that...

Coronavirus may force govt to disobey 5% GDP fiscal deficit law

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its revised forecast on Ghana’s economic growth has projected a 9.5 per cent fiscal deficit of Gross Domestic...

Coronavirus: Staff of Tema General Hospital threaten to leave post

Some staff of the Tema General Hospital (TGH) are threatening to abandon post as management conceals information on colleagues who have tested...

Lockdown: GUTA comes under pressure to clear goods from ports

The Ghana Union of Traders’ Association (GUTA) has bemoaned a directive from the Ghana Ports and Harbour Authority (GPHA) for members to clear all...

Covid-19: Taxi drivers refuse to pick nurses over coronavirus stigma

At a time when the government is fighting stigma of coronavirus, some taxi drivers show, there is a long way to go in reducing...

Covid-19: Police Hospital morgue to be decongested

The Ghana Police Hospital has announced a mass burial of unclaimed and unidentified bodies within the next two weeks in a move to decongest...

TOR MD’s resignation a common sense decision – Professor Azar

Private legal practitioner, Professor Stephen Asare, popularly called Kwaku Azar, has noted that the resignation from office of persons accused of misconducting themselves should...

Today in History: Kotoka murdered in abortive coup

Today in History, exactly 53 years ago today, on April 17, 1967, Major General Emmanuel kwasi Kotoka who was a member of the ruling...

Old Fadama residents sleep in the open as AMA demolishes makeshift homes [Video+Photos]

Dozens of squatters at Old Fadama, a slum community in Accra, have been compelled to sleep in the open after their makeshift homes were...

Good news for SMEs as access to Govt’s GHS 600 million soft loan begins in May

Micro, Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (MSMEs), according to the National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI) will, from May this year, have access to...

Scores of people mass up at Chief Imam’s residence [Photos]

Scores of people, mainly Muslims believed to be residents of the Fadama enclave, have massed up at the residence of the National Chief Imam,...

Man arrested for inciting market women against President’s directive at Kasoa

A young man, believed to be in his 40's, has been arrested by the Awutu Senya East Municipal Taskforce for allegedly inciting the market...

Lockdown: Newly-wed couple, 34 others remanded

The Obuasi Circuit Court has remanded to two weeks in police custody, a newly-wed couple, Philip Ayraquah, his wife Juliana Adjei and 34 others. ...

AMA provides canopies for displaced Old Fadama squatters [photos]

The Accra Metropolitan Authority (AMA) on Thursday provided five canopies to cover squatters at Old Fadama in Accra who have been compelled to sleep...